Stories Quotes

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

There are very few really stark black and white stories.

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work.

You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart.

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.

I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.

Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.

But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.

What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.

We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.

I always liked spy stories.

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.